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Eight Gobiernos Autónomos Indígenas Originarios Campesinos (GAIOC, Indigenous, Native, and Peasant Autonomous Governments) have been established in Bolivia:
image located by Jean-Marc Merklin, 15 May 2024
The first autonomous government of Guaraní Charagua Iyambae was officially installed on January 8, 2017: https://www.facebook.com/gagchiyambae/posts
According to its statute:
https://www.sea.gob.bo/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/EA-Charagua.pdf the flag is
that of the Guarani Nation. No description. On the cover we see the three colors
of the flag and the emblem.
In the flag in use we see at least one
difference, the sun on the flag is white not yellow and has only 6 rays instead
of 8 (my very wild guess is that the 6 rays represent the 6 zones of the
autonomy).
https://www.facebook.com/photo
https://www.facebook.com/photo
Finally Wikipedia:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorio_aut%C3%B3nomo_Guaran%C3%AD_Charagua_Iyambae
Paris Renesis, 28 December 2025
![[flag]](../images/b/bo-uruchi1.jpg)
![[flag]](../images/b/bo-uruchi2.jpg)
images
located by Paris Renesis, 28 December 2025
The first autonomous government of the Native Nation Uru Chipaya was
installed on January 30, 2018:
https://web.oep.org.bo/institucional-institucional/las-autoridades-de-uru-chipaya-asumen-funciones-en-su-primer-gobierno-indigena/
According to its statute
https://www.sea.gob.bo/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/EA-Uru-Chipaya.pdf (Google
translated) their "Kiwuna (flag) is the essence of life, representing the
different eras of time: black identifies the ancient ancestry of the Chullpas
who lived from the darkness, sky blue the era of water and the firmament, brown
represents the era of life and fauna, and white represents the era of Wirjin mä,
of the relationship of human beings with nature and their worldview for the Śuma
Qamś."
https://www.facebook.com/photo
It seems that later on the order of the stripes was changed to black, light
blue or just blue, white and brown: hhttps://www.facebook.com/photo
Paris Renesis, 28 December 2025
![[flag]](../images/b/bo-nouc.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin,
2 May 2026
The photo at https://www.sea.gob.bo/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/EA-Uru-Chipaya.pdf shows two copies of the same flag: ~3:5 with the horizontal stripes ordered as black, blue, brown, and white, the shade of blue being light, paler than the distinctive bright blue of the scarves and sleeves worn by the people attending: One flag is draping a lectern/table, with the black stripe on top, and the other hoisted on the upstairs balcony, with the white stripe on top.
Also visible on this photo:
- what seems to be a very oblong version of
the national flag, without the emblem, apparently;
- a curious cloth on the
background at the (viewer's) left side: pale blue background with a regular but
complex rank-and-file pattern of discs – white, the bright blue, brown and
voided blank discs defined
and surrounded by concentric dark line-thin rings,
the latter in two sizes. This is either a very interesting
thitherto unreported local flag design, or a 1970s shower curtain.
![[flag]](../images/b/bo-nouc1.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin,
2 May 2026
On
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1297886522383064 is the mentioned
four-stripe flag, here in a squarish variant (something between 2:3 and 4:5, tentatively 8:11) with a medium shade of
blue (same shade as on the Qolla Suyu wiphala also
visible, and in contrast with light blue / cyan of scarves and sleeves worn
by people on the photo); the order of the stripes is, from the top: black,
blue, white, and brown.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 May 2026
![[flag]](../images/b/bo-gch.jpg)
image
located by Paris Renesis, 28 December 2025
The first autonomous government of Guarani Chaqueno of Huacaya was officially
installed on March 28, 2024:
https://web.oep.org.bo/institucional-institucional/el-ted-chuquisaca-entrega-credenciales-a-autoridades-indigenas-del-gaioc-huacaya/
According to its statute:
https://www.sea.gob.bo/desarrollo-normativo-autonomico/estatutos-autonomicos-y-cartas-organicas/pdf/ESTATUTO_HUACAYA_web.pdf,
the flag is (Google translated): "green, brown, and yellow from top to bottom,
with a blue triangle at the hoist, spanning one-third of the flag's length.
Green represents our natural resources; brown represents the land; yellow
represents mineral wealth and the flower of the carnival tree; and blue
represents oil and gas wealth".
https://ipdrs.org/huacaya-celebra-su-primer-aniversario/
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=646114778119320&set=pcb.646116171452514
Paris Renesis, 28 December 2025
![[flag]](../images/b/bo-cha.gif)
![[flag]](../images/b/bo-cha0.gif)
images by
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 June 2026
On May 12 the authorities of the ninth GAIOC of Bolivia, Gobierno Autónomo
Originario Challa (GAOCH), were ratified:
https://fuentedirecta.oep.org.bo/noticia/ted-cochabamba-supervisa-ratificacion-de-autoridades-del-gobierno-autonomo-indigena-challa/
https://www.facebook.com/tedcbba/videos
https://www.facebook.com/100064387520945/videos
Their flag seems to be a horizontal triband brown (?) / white / green with
three yellow stars in the middle stripe according to this banner:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1441491368022493&set=pcb.1441491728022457
But I don't see any stars on the Challa flag used in the ceremonies:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1441491308022499&set=pcb.1441491728022457
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1391528803005277&set=pcb.1391532989671525
From the profile picture the flag of Autonomía Originaria Challa :
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122093704292141387&set=a.122093697206141387
Paris Renesis, 14 May 2026
The top color is indeed brown. Another source:
https://redunitas.org/dia-historico-y-festivo-challa-sella-su-autonomia-originaria-con-la-aprobacion-de-su-estatuto-por-consenso
Regarding the stars, they might be absent from the above sources, but
there are also the others, which display very small stars that may easily pass
unseen:
https://cambioclimatico.org.bo/contenido/historico-challa-aprueba-por-unanimidad-el-estatuto-de-su-autonomia-originaria
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQM5Bd5k7oC
Consequently, it is possible
that the flag is used either with or without the stars.
Tomislav
Todorovic, 15 May 2026
The image at https://www.facebook.com/photo is a large poster/collage including, along with lettering and photos, two relatively small symbols: a flag, shown flat, not wavy, and a logo/emblem next to it: The emblem is complex and shown too small to describe in detail, but two flag related details are evident: 1st, at the bottom there is ribbon in the same pattern as the flag (q.v.), and, 2nd, its background is a 45° tilted flat representation of the Qulla Suyu wiphala, its seven-white-square diagonal upright, with the corner yellow square at the left side of the viewer.
The flag is a ~4:7 horizontal tricolor
of brown over white over green, with three smallish wideset amber 5-point dense
upright stars. The shade of brown seems to vary between the russet tone in the
flag image and the bister tone of the emblem's ribbon.
António Martins-Tuválkin,
12 June 2026